Top 100 Quotes About Lorde
#1. My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.
Lorde
#2. We've been talking about Lorde like crazy! She's amazing!
Gabriel Mann
#3. Always
in the middle
of our bloodiest battles
you lay down your arms
like flowering mines
to conqueror me home,
-Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
#4. I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt ... I love it.
Clive Davis
#5. We know where a song's popularity starts, and we can watch it spread," Titus told me. Take, for example, Lorde, the out-of-nowhere sensation of 2013. Shazam's engineers can rewind time to trace the international contagion of her first single, "Royals,
Anonymous
#6. I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.
Alessia Cara
#7. I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
Troye Sivan
#8. A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
John Gower
#10. You can not take down the master's house with the master's tools
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
#11. Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
Lorde
#12. I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
Lorde
#13. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde
#14. Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
#15. Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
Audre Lorde
#16. The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...
Audre Lorde
#17. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.
Audre Lorde
#18. Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows
comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
Audre Lorde
#19. What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Audre Lorde
#20. I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
Lorde
#22. Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet
Lorde
#23. Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Audre Lorde
#24. I find the erotic such a kernel within myself. When released from its intense and constrained pellet, it flows through and colors my life with a kind of energy that heightens and sensitizes and strengthens all my experience.
Audre Lorde
#25. With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
Lorde
#26. How hard it is to sleep
in the middle of life.
Audre Lorde
#27. I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
Lorde
#28. I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
Audre Lorde
#29. I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
Audre Lorde
#30. I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.
Lorde
#31. Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
Audre Lorde
#32. I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
Lorde
#33. If I ever really sounded
I would rupture
your eardrums
or your heart.
Audre Lorde
#34. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
Audre Lorde
#35. Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past
Audre Lorde
#36. To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
Audre Lorde
#37. The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde
#38. If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
#39. You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
Audre Lorde
#40. I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'
Lorde
#41. Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde
#42. We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
Lorde
#43. I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde
#44. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world ...
Audre Lorde
#45. We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
Audre Lorde
#46. When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.
Audre Lorde
#47. In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
Audre Lorde
#48. The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Audre Lorde
#49. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.
Audre Lorde
#50. Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
Audre Lorde
#51. I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood.
Audre Lorde
#52. I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
Lorde
#53. I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
Audre Lorde
#54. Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness ...
Audre Lorde
#55. I wasn't cute or passive enough to be "femme," and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be "butch." I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.
Audre Lorde
#56. David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow
Lorde
#57. I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde
#58. I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.
Audre Lorde
#59. If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
Audre Lorde
#60. When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers.
Audre Lorde
#61. Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.
Audre Lorde
#62. Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
Audre Lorde
#63. I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
Lorde
#64. When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.
Audre Lorde
#65. We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.
Audre Lorde
#66. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde
#67. I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
Audre Lorde
#68. I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ...
Audre Lorde
#69. The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid ...
Audre Lorde
#70. Young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.
Audre Lorde
#71. And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.
Audre Lorde
#72. And nothing's wrong when nothing's true
But I live in a hologram with you.
Lorde
#73. June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.
Audre Lorde
#74. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
#75. I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
Audre Lorde
#76. I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Audre Lorde
#77. My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.
Lorde
#78. We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
Audre Lorde
#79. Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde
#81. What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
Audre Lorde
#82. Glory and gore go hand in hand.
Lorde
#83. Don't you think that is boring how people talk
Lorde
#84. Let me be your ruler, you can call me queen bee.
Lorde
#85. I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.
Lorde
#86. The cockroach
who is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other's shame.
Audre Lorde
#87. When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
Lorde
#88. Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
Audre Lorde
#89. What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence.
Audre Lorde
#90. We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.
Audre Lorde
#91. Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
Audre Lorde
#92. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde
#93. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
Audre Lorde
#94. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
#95. When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde
#96. One shard of brilliant summer pierced me
and remains.
By this only
unregenerate bone
I am not dead, but waiting.
Audre Lorde
#97. I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.
Lorde
#98. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling ...
Audre Lorde
#99. I have died too many deaths
that were not mine.
Audre Lorde
#100. I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
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